Senior Platform / Infrastructure Engineer (f/m/d)

Permanent contract, full-time or part-time, Cologne / Darmstadt / Düsseldorf / Remote

Who we are


 We operate Kaufland.de: Several thousand sellers and millions of products make us one of the fastest growing online marketplaces. Our work is characterised by a dynamic corporate culture, with a start-up mentality and the opportunities offered by a large corporation in the background. We combine knowledge and many years of experience in e-commerce with flat hierarchies and a highly motivated team. Whether you are an intern or a team lead: We take every idea seriously, because we want to work together in shaping the future of e-commerce!

We love flexibility! We offer you the best environment to work in a flexible and focused way: You decide whether you want to work in our office in Cologne // Darmstadt // Düsseldorf while at the same time having the opportunity to work remotely (Germany). We want to offer you the most attractive workplace in e-commerce and a maximum of flexibility for your personal work-life balance.

Day-by-day, our development team of about 250 experts pursues the goal of creating the best-possible customer shopping experience for the Kaufland.de marketplace. We are here to inspire millions of customers, to help them find, purchase and get the things they love. To enrich the lives of our customers, we collaborate in cross-functional teams, in which product owners, product designers, frontend and backend engineers, data scientists and lean managers join forces. Details regarding the challenges of the respective product areas can be found here: https://kaufland-ecommerce.com/en/team/tech/. 

Your tasks – this is what awaits you in detail

  • As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (f/m/d) on our Platform teams, your goal is to deliver the best possible developer experience and guarantee a reliable and performant production environment
  • You work closely with other Infrastructure Engineers to build interfaces for self-service, maintain infrastructure and design pipelines for our developers and data scientists
  • From CI/CD to container orchestration on Kubernetes, from infrastructure and networking to IAM and mailing: You work on a wide range of strategic and high-impact topics
  • You evaluate and work with various services within cloud platforms (GCP)
  • You develop and deploy cloud services via infrastructure-as-code and use GitOps practices where it makes sense


Your profile – this is what we expect from you

  • You have extensive experience in both software development (preferably GoLang) and infrastructure
  • Your background is Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Architect or similar
  • You bring sound experience with monitoring and alerting (Datadog, NewRelic, Sentry or similar), IaC (preferably Terraform & Ansible), CI/CD, and cloud platforms
  • You are used to rotating on-call duties
  • You have profound experience with containers and container orchestration, preferably with Docker and Kubernetes
  • You have a GitOps mindset and are familiar with principles like DRY, preferring to solve problems in a continuous improvement way
  • As a plus, you are familiar with service meshes like Istio
  • You possess strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, fluency in coding and high traffic / high availability system architecture and a desire to tackle complex problems
  • You are a strong team player and enjoy collaborating with different people and profiles as well as share knowledge and strive for continuous development and learning
  • You have excellent communication skills, are willing to embrace our company culture and values and enjoy working in an international, english-speaking team



What we offer

  • Create your own work-life! We offer you the best possible flexibility in terms of working hours and location 

  • A highly-motivated and qualified team from different fields and numerous nations

  • The future is digital - Develop the e-commerce of the future with us and work on a product with millions of users with a broadly-based technology stack

  • Power meets dynamic - flat hierarchies and start-up mentality meet and the power of a big corporate group and offers you an agile and secure working environment at the same time

  • Free choice of hardware – we provide you with the development environment of your choice

  • Personal & team growth: We love to have flexibility in terms of working location, but we also believe that personal interactions are important. That’s why we organize company events, and cover the costs to bring you there and to other (approved) get togethers with your peers. The same applies to conferences and other learning opportunities. We want everybody to grow personally and professionally, as a team and as a company

  • Top conditions at the Urban Sports Club for fitness, team sports, yoga and more

Check out our Principles & our blog for even more insights into our company culture!


Refer an Engineer Program

You want to work for us, but not without your dearest colleague? Join us as a team and earn money by referring your buddy for one of our open Tech positions! Depending on the level we offer a bonus up to 1.300,- € per referral, which will be paid after successful recruitment (the first part with your first salary, the second part after your buddy passes the trial period).

Why are you the perfect fit for this position? Don't bother with cover letters - we're interested in facts and figures!

Apply here
Your contact person: Kristina Heymann
Kaufland e-commerce
Kaufland e-commerce Services GmbH

Postal address:
Habsburgerring 2
50674 Köln

We are looking forward to your application!

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